Tan
Prison Wall
Look at the door to stop Thinking Zhang Jian, endure death and wait for Dugan;
I smiled at the sky with a horizontal knife and went to leave the liver and gallbladder for two kunluns.
The above poem is a desperate poem written by Tan Sitong, the sixth gentleman of Wushu, before his execution, the whole poem is written heroically and resolutely, showing Tan Sitong's fearless revolutionary spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice, the first two sentences of the poem quote the allusion of a famous person in history, Zhang Jian, so who is Zhang Jian, let us understand.
Zhang Jian, a famous scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, often gathered with friends to discuss state affairs, he was particularly unaccustomed to the style of the eunuch Hou Lan, often attacked, thus offending Hou Lan, Hou Lan then framed Zhang Jian and others for rebellion, the imperial court did not distinguish between black and white, ordered the arrest of Zhang Jian and others, Zhang Jian saw that the situation was not good, so he fled!
Zhang Jian's escape trip was quite smooth, because of his status as a celebrity, everywhere he went, as long as his name was reported, someone would take him into hiding, but the people of the imperial court could not care about these, and accommodating the imperial court Qin criminals was also a capital crime, these people refused to account for Zhang Jian's whereabouts, so they saw one by one to kill one, and those who had taken in Zhang Jian were killed one by one!
Zhang Jian fled this way, because of the custody of him was executed by more than a dozen families, these people's relatives and friends are not spared, the history books even left a record of "the county is broken", good guys, a Zhang Jian let the entire county people be killed, until finally Zhang Jian hid in the deep mountains and old forests, this terrible killing gradually subsided!
At that time, people commented: Zhang Jian, a person who committed his own sins and offended the powerful, fled on his own, and even tired so many people on the way out, and killed so many people for no reason. Compared with Zhang Jian, who was full of desire to survive, Li Zhao, a celebrity who was arrested with Zhang Jian at that time, did not choose to escape, but generously died without affecting anyone!
Tan Sitong's original intention in quoting Zhang Jian's allusion was to hope that those who fled the reform faction of the reformists would be treated by Zhang Jian, and on the way to escape, they could get the protection of everyone and escape to heaven, but behind Zhang Jian's escape in history were hundreds of lives sacrificed for no reason, although the behavior of these people is commendable, but the price paid for this reputation is not a little too big, whether the sacrifice of these people is worth it, let people think deeply!